Improvement in wash-benches



UNITED STATES PATENT v OFFICE.

GEORGE KING, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASH-BENCHES.

Specification forming part of LettersPatent No. 177,725, dated May 23,1876; application filed April 24, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE KING, of the city and county of Providence,in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and Improved OombinedStep -Ladder and Wash- 'Bench; and declare the following to be aspecification thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings-in which like letters indicate like parts. v

Figure l is a perspective view of my stepladder. Fig. 2 is a perspectiveView of the same converted into a wash-bench.

My invention is a combination of a step ladder and wash-bench, and is auseful article for domestic use, the cost being but slightly more thanthat of a step-ladder alone. It consists in making the standards of theladder double, and dividing and slotting the inner standards, soas toallow of their being folded to form the legs of the bench when desired.

In Fig. l the two top steps are cut away to show .the construction ofthe standards in the rear. The standards A are of the usual shape. Thestandards B are placed beside them, and are fastened permanentlytogether by the rods a and b at the top and bottom. The standards B arehinged to the ladder O in the usual manner. Half-way the length of thestanda-rd B they are divided, the upper parts 0 turning upon the hinges,the lower parts 01 turning upon the rod 1). The part c is mortised atits end to receive the tenoned end of the part d. Through thesetenon-joints and standards A the rod 0 passes from side to side, held inposition on one side by the head f, and on the other by the thumb-screwg. The upper part c of the standard B has a longitudinal slot, withinwhich the rod a may slide.

The braces D are pivoted to the ladder O and hook upon the rod 0. Ashelf, E, (with arms slotted longitudinally to slide upon the rod a,)swings upon the rod a, and when in position extends horizontally to therear, the inner ends of the arms being inserted between the step it andthe pieces i. The outer ends of the arms are mortised', as shown at j.

To change the ladder into a bench, unhook the braces D; remove thethumb-screw g; draw out the rod 0; open the folding standards 13; insertthe tenons of the parts 01 into sockets or mortises made to receive theminto the frame of the ladder O, as shown at k, Fig. 2;

was the ladder the wash-tub can be set, and A a substantial and strongbench is obtained.

I claim as a novel and useful invention, and desire to secure by LettersPatent- The combined step-ladder and wash-bench, consisting of theladder 0, standards A, standards B, composed of the slotted pieces 0 andpieces (1, braces D, shelf E, and rods a, b, and 0, made and operatedsubstantially as described.

GEORGE KING.

Witnesses:

OHAs. A. WILsoN, WILLIAM B. W. HALLETT.

